The Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov to four years in prison for “justifying terrorism” in a conversation with cellmates. This was reported by Miftakhov's support group.
This is more than the term requested today during the debate — the state prosecution asked Miftakhov to be sentenced to three years in prison (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
According to the verdict, the anarchist will spend the first two and a half years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the time in a maximum security colony.
According to investigators, Miftakhov, in a conversation with cellmates Gadzhimuradov, Naumov and Trushkov in the Kirov penal colony IK-17, “approved” the action of Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who staged an explosion in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk, said that he would “take revenge” for the death of a friend who fought on the side Ukraine, and that “FSB guys need to be blown up.”
Miftakhov’s wife told Mediazona that it was Trushkov who gave testimony on the basis of which a new case was opened against Miftakhov.
The anarchist himself does not admit guilt. In his last word, he said that the evidence in both of his criminal cases was falsified, and “the obviousness and impudence of such falsification does not bother them (the security forces — MZ), and even plays into their hands.” As It's My City writes, judge Alexey Kolesnikov interrupted Miftakhov’s speech after a minute and a half and forbade journalists to film his speech.
In the winter of 2021, a graduate student at Moscow State University was sentenced to six years in prison for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to security officials, in 2018, anarchists broke the window of the United Russia office in the Khovrino district of Moscow, threw a smoke bomb inside and posted the video on the Internet. A secret witness, questioned a year after the case was opened, claimed that he identified Miftakhov by his “expressive eyebrows.” The anarchist himself denied that he participated in the action.
In August 2023, shortly before his release, Miftakhov was added to the “list of extremists and terrorists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. On September 4, the anarchist was detained at the exit from the colony, and the next day the Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov sent him under arrest. Before the start of the trial for justifying terrorism, Miftakhov was transferred to pre-trial detention center-5 in Yekaterinburg.
“The operatives laughed at us and showed facts » Relatives and friends of Azat Miftakhov — about the few minutes that the mathematician spent in freedom